Alexander Nicolaus Scherer

Alexander Nicolaus Scherer (Russian: Александр Иванович Шерер, 30 December 1771, St. Petersburg – 16 October 1824, St. Petersburg) was a Russian-German chemist and pharmacologist.

In 1794 he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar.

In 1800 he was appointed a professor of physics at the University of Halle, shortly afterwards working as a manager at a stoneware factory in Potsdam.

[1] Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president.

[4] He was the author of Kurze Darstellung der chemischen Untersuchungen der Gasarten (Weimar, 1799), translated into English in 1800 as A short introduction to the knowledge of gaseous bodies.